Noticed WiiU already has its fair share of poor reviews, in my experience though thats just Nintendo for you. For every 10 items of shovelware produced on the likes of the DS and Wii theres an absolute gem that makes the system worth owning.

Yep, Black Ops: Declassified on Vita is indeed a very poor game. The online mode is merely playable/passable and the single player is obviously thrown together in a few months time... tops.

There are much better Vita titles to spend your time/money on: Dokuro, Velocity, Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack and MotorStorm RC are only but a few better ways to spend around $10 on Vita.

As for the developer of Declassified, I'm quite excited to see what they do now that they are no longer Sony's 'ugly duckling' that gets all the under-budgeted and over-hyped titles. I think the team has a lot of talent and I hope they do great things going forward.

Slap, you're mistaken. nStigate (Nhilistic software) only made 2 games for Sony. They were awful; yup. But the games Nhilistic made before that were terrible too.

The best game they've ever made was 'Vampire' which earned a 75 metacritic. I'm not sure what basis you have to believe their studio has talent, but frankly, they've produced little to nothing to show that over the last 10 years.

Multiplayer is a whole lot of fun on BLOP. Campaign sucks. I'd give campaign a 1/10 grade but I'd give multiplayer a 8/10 when keeping in mind that this is a handheld and far exceeds any other handheld in multiplayer fun and game play.

Because I don't care about multiplayer I would give the game a 7 to 8 out of ten in terms of fun. I've logged over 30 hours of multiplayer and I still love it.

I've also heard mixed reviews about Blops Declassified but the proof is Nihilistic's previous efforts, the 45 minute campaign, and the fact that the console version of the mp is generally broken, so I'm guessing the handheld version won't be much better...

The amazing thing about Declassifed is that as soon as the bad reviews appeared, countless people jumped in to defend it. This was even as early on as launch day.

I can only assume a lot of people were duped into buying a Vita because of it, and thus felt as if they had to defend their purchase. Either that or people mistook the bashing it was getting as general "CoD hate" from Battlefield fans and the like.

I think it had to do with reviews coming in from 1 side and the fans coming from a different side and the 2 sides just so happen to conflict. Like you can't really review the online past a mechanical standpoint, which was less than inspiring. Not a ton of choices, maps are super small, 4v4, didn't work that well to start, where as fans view it as "true" to the series they love and automatically give it more benefit of doubt than reviews did. The online fans also write off the single player, so a number of people simply bought a $50 dollar Multiplayer shooter on the go, which admittedly Declassified does alright with. (not amazing, but enough to be playable when bored) This is completely untrue for reviewers, which have to look at the full package and single player is virtually nonexistentant. Best of all if you play the game on hard, you can clearly see how half assed the AI is. Even the side modes like enemy rush get boring, since almost every map has a choke point and if you don't use that, then you'll probably die the second the AI gets to hard difficulty.

This is where the conflict mostly comes from. People only looking at the good and in turn defending it and reviewers taking single player into account. Not saying there aren't people who did what you're saying, but I am saying it has more to do with what / how people viewed the game.

Oh I'm sure the Vita is capable of having a good FPS -- Unit 13 is a good TPS, and with some more effort (like a solid SP campaign, and online MP), I'm certain a good FPS could be made for the Vita.

BLOPS just isn't it. The shooting mechanics are fantastic on Unit 13 -- it really only lacked in that it was missing a riveting SP storyline and competitive MP. I feel that U13 is proof that a good FPS is possible on the Vita -- if some publisher would just spend the money to make a good one, it would happen.

My point was that U13 was a better shooter than BLOPS (and resistance, etc.) because it has good mechanics and gameplay, as well as good design. If it had a story, like a real CoD does, or competitive MP, like a real SOCOM, it would be an amazing game.

It doesn't have those things, so I guess I sorta agree with you... except that its still fun to play, after many months on my Vita, so... I guess that kinda speaks to it being better than "average", really.

Black Ops Declassified isn't as bad as it's been rated. All the fan hate the game received after knowing who the developer was. Review sites probably noticed this and decided to give it poor ratings since it starts controversy and controversy sells.

Most of the reviews even mention it's from the same developer and it's a better game, but Resistance Burning Skies scored much higher on the same magazines/sites. Hmm.

I haven't played it, however, people who have played the game and don't have an agenda usually say it's a pretty good game. From what I've heard, the game plays just like a Call of Duty, so the gameplay isn't bad. It takes an hour to play through singe player because it's score based. There are a lot of games with this play style that are highly rated. The online also plays like a Call of Duty with four people instead of six.

Now I wouldn't bash the developer based on not being up to par on normal Call of Duty titles. When it was announced, Activision attempted to develop the game and port the Call of Duty engine over the way it currently is despite Sony telling them it wouldn't work. They wasted a year before they told Sony that they were right about it. Sony brought Nihilistic Software in to do the game since they have already created one FPS on the system, and Nihilistic software created as good of a game with the limited time they've had. This is why we didn't see any previews for the game for such a long time, there was no game.

Then Activision prices it at $50 like a bunch of douchebags, and this is where most of the hate comes from.